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Ct (tatrtatibe.
JKi-KTH A. ICKI.I.T. K0ITOR
II -COXXELSVII.LE, OHIO :
Friday, Feb. II, 1STO.
ANOTHER OF GRANT'S APPOINTEES.
FOIXTECS.
Mack," in the Cincinnati Enqui
rer, under date of February 2nd,
shows tip one of Grant's appointees
to office, as follows :
'But every now and tcn an op
portunity occurs for viewing a
"specimen brick" here at Washing
ton, and the object of this paragraph
is to show ono of them to the pub
lic. It is the person nominated by
the model President to be the mod--l
United States Marshal for Cali
fornia the most important Feder
:l office in the State. Mr. William
(r. Morris is the individual thus
honored ; and what I have to say
about him I quote from a pamphlet
now before me, entitled "The Rec
ord of William G. Morris, nomina
ted for United States Marshal of
California." It consists of thirty
eix pages, made up chiefly from
Court records, and sebmiticd to the
Senate Judiciary Committee for the
di6'oyal purpose of defeatiug Gen.
G rani's favorite candidate. Here
is the introductory overture, in the
nature of a prefaco :
"If the history of human crime
lias a blacker or meaner pagre than
that exhibited in the following
transcript froni the records of the
First District Court of California, it
certainly has never been necessary
to recite it to the American Senate
to prevent the confirmation of its
rctor to a high executive office.
On the 27th of Joly, 1858, G. W.
Morris was an attorney and notary
j.ublic for Tulare County. Californ
la. At that date, one J. D. Staple
ford, after various efforts to induce
W. C. Deputy to make him a deed
of certain property owned by Dep
uty, made a complaint against Dep
uty of embezzlement before a jus
t'ca of the peace, and had him ar
retted Mid confined in the County
Jail. This arrest was a mere pre-li-x.
to get Deputy in his power, for
no witnesses ever appeared against
Deputy on the examination of the
c harge. The same night, Staple
ford mid Uofris came, with several
ethers, to the jail, overpowered the
keepers, cut the chain that confined
Deputy, took him some hundreds
of yards distant, stopping his cries
with threats, pulled off his shirt,
put a rope round his neck and then
l ung him up to the limb of a tree,
lie was let down senseless, when
lie was whipped by Morris' own
l ands with a cowhide until he re
covered his senses, when ho was
risked If he would deed his proper
ly to Stapleford. Upon his refusal,
lo was hung up again until he
F'.rangled. He was let down again,
rind again whipped by Morris. Die
Mill refused to deed his property,
and the same operation was repeat
ed, inclnding hanging and whipp
ing, when he said he would deed
jmything to save hi life ho prom
ised to do so at daylight, i.nd to
pive up all his rforsonal properly,
was threatened if he did not do as
lie promisod ho would be bung cer
tainly next time, and was tatcen
luck and rechamed. Tho next
morning very early Morris and Sta
pleford repaired to the jail where
Pepnty was confined. Morn3 wrote
the deed in his presence, and then
nd there, with the protestations of
the victim that he signed only to
save hia life, amid the insulting and
jeering remarks of Morris and Sta
pleford, and calling on a few wit
nesses of tho scene Tor protection,
jind while 6till chained by the leg,
lie signed tho deed, to which Morris
affixed his notarial certificate, stat
ing that on that date personally ap
peared before him said Deputy, and
acknowledged to me (him) that he
executed the same freely and vol
untarily, and for. the nsfS and pur
poses therein mentioned."
Then follow thirty odd pages of
transcripts from the Court Record,
giving in tedious detail tho official
history of this revolting crime, and
showing that tho man to whom Mr.
Grant wishes to confide the execu
tion of United States laws in Cali
fornia was the chief in6tigitorani
chief perpetrator of it. What a fit
man for United States Marshal !"
Speaker Cunningham Repudiating
the Fifteenth Amendment
on the Cars.
The. Cincinnati Enquirer tells a
good" jioke on ono of the members of
the House ef Representatives from
that county, who voted for Negro
Suffrage. Tho Enquirer is too mod
est to name tho man our modesty
is not bo excessive. Tho tale as
told to us named Mr. Speaker Cun
ningham as the individual member.
On the Satnrday afternoon afler
Ihe adoption of the Negro Suffrage
Amendment, the "Mr. Speaker"
took passage on the train for Cin
cinnati. Finding a 6eat unoccu
pied, Mr. Cunningham deposited
his 6ack in it and left it for a mom
ent in order to visit another car.
While be was thus temporarily ab
sent. iu stepped a gigantic ncgTO,
Hack at the aec of spades, and with
by no means fragrant smell, came
to tho seat, and coolly moved the
member of the Legislature's valise
from a position near tho window to
place near aisle, ensconcing him
self in tho cesired position. Mr.
Speaker Cunningham soon return
ed, but, instead of sitting down by
his sable companion, as it was gen
erally anticipated he would, turned
from him in disgnst, took his carp
et sack and procoeded sevzral seats
beyond, where he found onc unoc
cupicd. This ll:ght from the negro
this desire to avoid his company
was the signal for a general laugh
from Democrats and Republicans
who witnessed the scene. It was a
vote against the Fifteenth Amend
ment in a railroad car by one who
had just voed him m the legisla
ture political and social equality.
RADICAL BAD FAITH.
In the United States Senate, on
tho 17th ultimo, Senator Thurman
made a speech on Ohio politics, in
reply to Senator Sherman, from
which we extract the following vo
ry pointed reference :
'But, sir, then came the election
of 18C3, that my colleague lost sight
of entirely. You carried tho State
of Ohio for the Republican partyjn
18C8. IImv did you carry it ? You
carried it upon the Chicago plat
form ; which doclarcd that to every
loyal State belonged the regula
tion of suffrage in that Stale. Was
not Ohio a loyal State ? Who de
nies it ? You said in the platform
of the Chicago Convention which
nominated General Grant, that to
every loyal Stale belonged the reg
ulation of suffrago in that State.
You said that to the peoplo of Ohio
in 18C8. You said it from every
stump, you said it in every conven
tion ; you said it in every newspa
per ; and upon that 6olemn pledge
io the people of Ohio, that to thai
State should bo left the regulation
of 6uffrago therein, you carried that
State. But the election was scarce
ly dclarod, President Giant wa
not inaugurated yet, beforo you
proposed to nullity that declaration,
to repudiate your platform of Chi
cago, and to force on tho people of
Ohio the Fifteenth Amendment.
And now my co'Icaguo says that
the people otOhio at their last elec
tion decided in favor of Ihc Fif
teenth Amendment."
THAT THOUSAND-DOLLAR
DARKEY!
The following is from "Mack," of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, dated at
Washirglon, February 7th :
"A number of. journals speak of
Mr. Revels, the colored Senator
from Mississippi as a "'thousand
dollar darkey." In doing so they
aro guilty of rross injustice to tho
gentleman in question, and of still
grosser misrepresentation of the
history of tho tunes. If Mr. Rev
els were only a "thousand-dollar
darkey," I should not feel constrain;
cd to do more than bow politely as
I pass him on the threshold of the
Senate Chamber, or treat him with
that degree of respectful considera
tion which is due tc a member of
the honorablo body whereof he has
been chosen a member. There are
those so the poet tells us to
whom a primrose by the rivet 'a
brink is a yellow primrose, and no
more ; to all such Mr. Revels is a
thousand-dollar darkey. Bat Icon-
fess to a disposition to look on him
in a far more exalted light. 1 see
in him a three-thousand-million-dollar
darkey ; I hear in his voice
the thunders of Donelson and Shi
loh and Vicksburgand Gettysburg;
and in his foot-stops tho treai of
mightier armies than Napoleon ev
er marshaled for the conquest of
Europe. Tho election of Revels is
the net proceeds of all that war and
bloodshed. He represents the as
6ets and liabilities of the four j cars'
struggle ; ho is "the glorious fruits
of union and victory," whereof we
have heard 60 much. If this be not
bo, let the reader point out some
other solution to the problem.
Why was tho war fought, if not to
elect Revels ? And now that it is
over, what is there to show for its
million graves and its three thou
sand millions of dollars, except the
election of Ravels ? If tharo are
other results to the great struggle,
name them. But, at any rate, let us
not bo irreverent on the subject of
Rove's let lis not belittle him into
a thousand-dollar darkey ; but let
m rather 6ee in him the great liv
ing representative of the issue
which it took so nany preeious
lives and so much precious treas
ure to bring to a victorious conclu
sion; and so regarding him, let us
approach him with uncovered
heads, and bow beforo htm as to
great Jove himself."
Grant's Attorney General Defeated.
feated.
j
The United States Senate Thurs
day a week ago made 6hort wrk of
Attorney General Hoar, nominated
as one of the Justices of the Su
preme Court. The vote on confir
mation of tho nomination 6tood as
follows 24 against 33 for rejecting.
All tho New England Senators
present voted in tho affirmative ex-
cept Mr. fcumunJs of Vermont. All
of the Southern Senators except Mr.
Warner, of Alabama, and Mr. Gil
bert, of Florida, voted no. Mr.
Williams, of Oregon, was the only
Senator from the Pacific coast who
voted aye. Both New York Sena
tors voted no; also, all the Demo
crats. Mr. Morton was not present,
but would have voted aye. Mr.
Sherman was, also, not present. It
is definitely known that Mr. Hoar's
present intention is to remain in
the Cabinet. lie certainly ought
to resign, for a man cot fit to be a
judge, :8 scarcely fit to be the Attor.
nev General of the United States
JOKE ON GREELEY.
[Wash. Cor. Cleveland Leader.]
You remember that in the New
York Constitutional Convention, a
year or two ago, Horace was chair
man of the Committee on Woman
Suffrage. Ho is in tho van of all
other Reforms, but from some cause
an antagonist of this. Perhaps the
statement of the fact that Mrs.
Greeley is vehemently in favor of it
may bo an explanation. Neverthe
less, the white coated, philosopher
brought a report adverse to Wo
man Suffrage. Now it happened
that Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Greelcy
are dear friends, and Mrs. Stant
on was at Albany when Horace re
ported. Instanter she telegraphed
to Mrs. Horace to get up a petition
of one thousand women, head it
herself, against the report refusing
women suffrage, informing her
what her husband had done. The
next day it came ; and amidst the
roars of laughter of the Conven
tion and the galleries, and to tho
surprise and chagrin of Horace,
this petition, indorsed 'from Mrs.
Horace Greeley and a thousand
others," was read. The white hat
and coat vanished in search of
that inveterate Mrs. Stanton.'
She was found. The following dia
logue ensued :
Greeley "Good morning, Mrs.
Stanton."
Stanton "Good morning, Mr.
Greelej ."
Greeley "Did yon induce my
wife to send that infernal petition
here ?"
Slanton "I kept her posted a
bont your unconstitutional procee
dings, Mr. Greeley."
Greeley "Well, madam, I have
alwav6 been rour friend."
or
Stanton "And I yonrs, Mr.
Greeley."
Greeley "But I won't stand such
treatment.'
Slanton "I have outwitted you,
haven't 1. Mr. Greeley?"
Enraged at this bit of bitter in
terrogation, Greeley replied :
"Mrs. Stanton, so long as 1 live
and control the Tribune, the name
oi Elizabeth Cady Stanton 6hall not
appear in its columns."
And to lhf-1 day it has not ; but
as il to belittle her assumed inde
pendence, you will often, very of
ten, fiud in its columns that of Mrs.
H. B. Stanton.
US About the only government
al privilege the American people
enjoy i that of receiving their own
county newspapers free of postage.
While they tho supposed sover
eignshave had this trifling im
munity. Congressmen have been
more than doubling their own sala
ries, and encumbering tho mails
with tons of wretched trash, at the
people's expense. Kow, these very
same "representatives of the peo
ple'" assume to be their juardians,
and tell them they must pay post
age on their county papers, if they
(the Congressmen) must relinquish
the grossly abused franking privil
ege. How do the aforesaid "sover
eign peoplo" like that ? Pomeroy
Crescent.
The Chicago Republican 'takes
the ground that tho colored Sena
tor cloct from Mississippi, H. H.
Revels, is incligble, on tho ground
that he has not been legally a citi
zen of the United Stales nine years.
Jast as wo expected quibbling and
evading tho darkey already.
Those Radical chaps think him
good enough as a Buffragran or in
Southern State Legislatures; but
when he aspires to the Federal
Senate, some of them fly the track,
argue against his elegib'Iity.
Death of Allen Trimble.
The death of ex-Govenor AUen
Trimble, at his residence in Hills
boro, on Thursday, at the advanced
ago of 87, was that of a good man,
who. in a long life, had left Lis
impress upon this State. He was
a Virginian by birth, but resided
in Ohio for sixty-five years For
many years he was a leading mem.
ber of the Ohio Legislature was
acting Govenor of the State in 1822,
and elected Govenor in 1826 and '28.
His popularity was so great that at
th election of 1828, being tho Ad
ams candidate for Govenor. he was
erected over-John W. Campbell, the
Jackson candidate, one of the pur
est and beet men, although at the e
lection a few weeks after, General
Jackson carried the State.
Gov. Trimble left a large number
of descendants, the Rev. Joseph M.
Tremble, cf this city, boirg one of
hi$ sons.
From the Old Guard, of Feb. 1870.
THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF
RACES.
BY HON. JOHN E. HANNA, OF M'CONNELSVILLE,
OHIO.
If all men f prang from a common
parent, then all are brethren, and
should have equal righss, privileges,
and duties, socially and politically ;
while any right or privilege awarded to
one and denied to another, would be
an infringement of these common
rights. God created all men and all
also all races of men, as well as
the inferior animals ; and as creatures
of His, they have certain rights am
ong these the right of life. But, be
cause the horse has a right to live, it
does not follow he is man's brother, or
his equal in all things. Each creature
should have all things suitable and
proper for him in his own sphere.
If we had one common progenitor
we would be constitutionally alike, as
the law of na'ure teaches that like be
gets like. That there is a constitu
tional difference between the white
man and the negro is evident. There
is not only the obvious difference in
color, hair, shape of head and limbs,
but anatomy shows us that a negro's
liver is larger, and his lungs smaller
than those of the white man ; and phy
siology that the part the liver per
forms in the negro's economy is grea
ter, and that of the lungs and kidneys
less, than in that of the white. Mr.
Jefferson, in his Notes on Virginia,
suggests the difference between the
pulmonary apparatus of the two races
;that the negro does not extricate, as
much caloric from the air by respira
tion, and consequently consumes less
oxjgen." He also calls attention to
the fact of the defective kidneys of the
ne;ro.
Dr. Cartwright says:
"Negro children and white children
are alike at birth in one remarkable
particular they are both white, and
so much alike, so far as color is con
cern d, as scarcely to be distinguished
from each other. In a very short time,
however, the skin of the negro infant
begini. to darken, and continues to
grow birker, until it becomes of a shi
ning black color. Provided the child
be healthy, the skin will become black
whether exposed to the air and light,
or not. he blackness is not of as
deep n shade during the first years "f
life as afterwards. The black color is
not as deop in the female as in the
male, nor in the feeble, sickly negro
as in the robust and healthy."
Dr. Cartwright also notes the fact
that, a t birth, the brain of the white
child is enclosed by fifteen disunited
plates, and that of the negro but by
ten th frontal and temporal bones in
the latU r being in one piece, instead
of six pices, as in the white ; the rea
son for which is evident. He further
says :
"The great Gorman anatomists, Mei
ners, Ebel and Sconimering, a 1 bear
witness to tka fact that the muscles,
blood, mer ibr.mes, and all th- intern
al organs of the body, the bones excep
ted, are of a darker hue in the negro
than in tho white man. They estimate
the difference in color to be equal to
that which -xi6ts between the hare and
rabbit. Whoever doubts the fact, or
has none of those old and impartial au
thorities at hand impartial because
thejr were written before England ad
opted the policy of pressing religion
and science into her serTice to place
the white American republican Iree
man and the Guinea negroes upon the
same platform--has only to look into
the mouth of the first healthy typical
negro he meets, to be convinced of the
truth that the entire membranous lin
ing of the instdo of the cheeks, lips,
and gums- is of a much darker color
than in the white man The negro
must be healthy, and in good condi
tion Sickn-ss, bard usage and chro
nic ailments a peedily extract the color
ing matter out of the mucous merab
raues, leaving them paler than in the
Caucasian rac-i."
Thus we see that there is a natural
constitutional difference in the two ra
ces of men; ar d if we rely on the law of
nature, we cannot arrive at the con
elusion that both races came from a
common paternity.
But we are told that the Bible tea
ches we have all sprung from Adam.
The Bible being a revelation from God
to mar., we must believe that, even if
it should contradict all science and
history. Science is but the enlighten
ed view of the law of nature. The law
of nature is the rule established by the
Creator in the foi ming and sustaining
of His work, and is entitled to full cre
dence. It must be true. Now, the
Bi'de being a revelation from God, it
and the law of nature must harmonise,
because the same fountain can not
send forth sweet and bitter water at
the same time. Under these circum
stances, what is the duty of all who re
vere the Bible T Is it not to examine
and see if its teachings can be harmon
ized with the law of nature ?
Does the Bible contradict the law of
nature in reference to the creation of
the human race ? It does not follow
that if men are not all of one race, that
they are not all human beings that
the genus homo must necessarily have
but one species. We think the Bible
in perfect accord with the law of na
ture, but we admit there is a construc
tion which differs ; and many of these
constructionists have done more to
weaken Biblical authority than Faine,
Voltaire, and all of that school. We
remember when a person would have
been anathematized if he had doubted
that the work of creation was perform
ed during six diurnal revolutions of
the earth around the sun, as at one
time it was held impious to doubt that
the sun revolved around the earth ev
ery twenty-four hours. But the view
now entertained by intelligent men of
undoubted piety, is that a "day" in
creation means an indefinite period,
and thus the Bible is made to harmon
ize with the law of nature as developed
by the science of geology. And so, in
reference to Noah s flood, it was once
urged that the whole earth was sub
merged, and all animal life on earth,
except that of Noah's ark, was destroy
ed. But, unfortunately for that theo
ry, the size of the ark is given, and we
can calculate its capacity, as well as the
amount of space each animal would oc
cupy, and form an estimate of the
room that waa required for their food.
So modern theologians explain by Bay
ing that the whole earth was not sub
merged, but only so much as was then
known to the historian. Is it not a
much better explanation to say that so
much of the earth as was then inhabit
ed by Adam's race, leaving all other
parts with the human and inferior ani
mal uodestroyed T It was Adam'.'
race who were the transgressors, au
whom God had determined to punish ;
and this theory would leave the non
ofiVnding races to avoid the catastro
phe as they would have inferior ani
mals to do.
But let us see what the Bible says in
reference to the creation of man. "Let
us make man in our own image and
likeness, and let him have dominion,"
etc. This does not necessarily imply
that there were no human animals cre
ated before that time. I he most that
can be learned from that declaration is
that was going to create a man in his
own image, to have a dominion over
all other created things, including all
other prevfdus creations of men, if
such were not be their equals, no
more than with the horse or other ani
mals created with him. Then perhaps
the first question would be, which one
of the races was created .at that time,
which the descendants of Adam, since
it was these that were to tare domin
ion. We take it that it was the Cauca
sian, since whenever you find that race
in contact with another it subjugates
it. Again, Adam was placed on proba
tion, and we know nothing of the orig
inals of any other race being so placed,
lie transgressed the rule prescribed
for him, and incurred the penalty of
his transgression. But God, in His
mercy, made provision for restoring
him and bis posterity again to the po
sition he occupied in creation. That
was to be through Christ. Now Christ
was only provided for Adam's race.
The other races did not fall in Adam,
and consequently can never rise in
Christ. Hence we see that all efforts of
Christian friends have never been able,
though at immense expense and suff
ering, to plant Christianity permanent
ly in Africa, China, or even upon the
aborigines of this continent, or am
ongst any races of men but the white.
We may overpower and subjugate the
inferior races, and while under the in
fluence of the superior race they may
be induced to adopt our religion ; but
remove them from that influence, and
they immediately abandon the faith
Why is this, unless that not having
fallen in Adam, they cannot rise in
Christ ?
And the promise of the whole world
being given in Christ, must mean the
world of Adam' 8 race. The teaching it
means tha' all races of men were to be
come Christians, only serve to discred
it the Bible, because we see the efforts
to make proselytes are vain, except a
mong the Caucasian race. Therefore,
for the sake of the Bible, we should see
if the construction put on it by many
is not an error. If it proves so, let us
adopt the truth, though it seem count
er to the views of some of our theolo
gians ; for these views are not only in
juring Christianity, but destroying
man. Look at the history of any coun
try where there has been a comming
ling of races. Take Mexico, where
each and every race, and the hybrid
races resulting from their mixture,
have equal rights. We see they have
not prospered in the came ratio as we,
in this country, where the law of God
has been observed in the matter, and
one race had dominion. And if Ad
am's race was to have dominion by a
decree of God, is it not vain for man to
strive against the law ? This is the ef
foit now being made in this country ;
but it will fail, since man never has,
and never can successfu ly contend
with his Maker.
But the advocates of a unity of race
origin cite the declara ion of !-t. Paul
on Mars Hill, in Athens Acts xvii.,
26 when he said, ."and hath made of
one Hood all nations of men for to
dwell on all the face of the earth."'
Now, Dr. Adam Clarke says that in for
ty of the most authentic MSS. exam
ined by him, the word "blood"' is omit
ted, and in Uaydock's Bible it is not al
lowed a place. But does the text, if
admitted, prove the unity of the race ?
We must consider where and when it
was uttered, whom the speaker was ad
dressing, the subject of the address,
and what doctrines and principles he
was endeavoring to bring to their at
tention. The address was delivered in
Athens, before the Supreme Court of
the nation, in the fiftieth or fifty-first
year of the Christian era ; and we may
well suppose he was addressing the
most learned and intelligent men of
the nation, if not the world. He was
speaking to his own race at least we
have no evidence that any other was
there. He was a Roman citizen of
Hebrew birth, addressing a Greek au
dience. The Romans, the Hebrews,
and the Greeks were alike descend
ants of Adam. He had been through
the city, and discovered that the peo
ple were very religious, and had many
altars. He commenced by alluding to
their habits of devotion, and told them
he had found an altar with the in
scription, "To the Unknown God."
This he said was the God he was pro
claimingfor he had been arraigned
before the court on the charge of set
ting up a new deity that He was the
author ot ali things, even of man ;
that He was Lord of heaven and earth;
that he should be worshipped as the
sustainer and supporter of all ; that all
are acceptable to Him. He called
their attention to the fact that Jesus
Christ had died and was raised from
the dead, to restore not only the Jews,
but all the descendants of Adam, of
whatever na'ion or clime, to favor with
God. This was his theme, and here
was the principle he was striving to
demonstrate. He was not discussing
the manner of creation. Language is
always to bo construed in reference to
the subject in debate. So in reference
to the Declaration of Indpendenceand
the Constitution of these United States.
The negro is doubtless alluded to in
the Constitution as being held to ser
vice, and in regard to his importation
in a servile condition ; but he was not
put within the pale of citizenship, be
cause he was of a different race. There '
were provisions for naturalizing for
eigners, but these were only applicable
to persons of our own race from for
eign countries. Mr. Jefferson's marks
are on those instruments. It is well
known that he was opposed to "slave
Ti"but its lso known that he was op
posed to violating God's law by mak
ing all races of men believing the ne
gro to be inferior equal socially and
politically. He said "Will not a lov
er of natural history one who views
the gradations in all the races of ani
mals with the eye of philosophy, excuse
an effort to keep those of the depart
ment of man as distinct as na'ure
formed them?" The framers of our
Constitution were aware of the fact,
and built the framework of the gov
ernment upon the basis of the natural
distinction and physical differences in
races comprising the American popu
lation. Dr. Cartwright says : "If the
Constitution bo worth defending, sure
ly the great truths of natural history,
on which it rests as a basis, are worth
being made known and regarded by
our statesmen." Tke delusion that all
men sprung from . one common parent
had its origin in England, for the pur
pose of destroying our institutions.
I'ritchard, Todd, and others, have made
science bow to tho policy of govern
ment. In this the clergy have taken
no small part, and they have perverted
the Bible to their use, until they have
almost destroyed it, as the Mongrels in
this country have our Constitution.
Shall we aid England in her crusade,
and the fanatics in our own country in
their work of destruction. Or, will we
endeavor to save the Bible, our Con
stitution, and the government our fa
thers gave us -yea, een the white
man himself? The road is plain to all
these results.
But we are confronted with this
point : If all human beings did not de
scend from Adam, we have no history
of them in the Bible. Neither have we
of many other creatures God made
Why a revelation was vouchsafed to us
concerning Adam's descendants, and
no other race, is not for us to say. But
we might conceive a reason for even
this. Adam was the masterpiece of
creation. Ue was to hare dominion
over all other creatures, he was placed
on probation, fell, and was to be re
stored. The Saviour was not to appear
in the world for along time afterwards,
and he was to be connected with Ad
am's race. To trace his geneology, it
was important to give this history.
And in giving the history of one race,
if the others are not mentioned, it
does not detract from the narrative,
nor would the irention have strength
ened it. In writing an account of the
origin of the horse, if the cow were not
named or if, when speaking of he ani
mal, it should be said that it eats grass,
"in common with the cow," the ab
sence of mention in the first instance
would not detract from, nor the allut
ion in the second add to, the authen
ticity of the narrative. There are al
lusions, however, in the Bible, to oth
er races beside those of Adam, and the
reader of the Book may readily per
ceive them.
OHIO. Miscellaneous.
Sleep.
Sleep which is a kind of antici
pation of death, is in lifetime a
death which restores vitality. It
procures the happiness of being
born ngain cvt-ry day. The better
the sleep, the greater the proba
bility of longevity. Night ought
to to te consecrated to sleep.
This is a law of nature which can
not be infringed with impunity.
Nothing is more prejudicial to lon
gevity than devoting the nights to
intellectual or bedily labors.
Many literary men, learned men,
and artiets have died young in con
sequence of this practice. On the
other hand, early rising, after be
ing refreshed by sleep, is as benefi
cial as lato work is tho reverse.
Tho amount of sleep necessary f r
rcinvigoratmg depends upon the
ago, habits and constitution of the
individual. A new-born infant
would perish if kept awake twenty
four hours. Sleep is even more
oecessarj afler mental than after
bodily labor. A man who thinks
little is always in a kind of torpcr.
Old ago, again, require less sloep
than youth and adult age. As the
bodjr is more assessable to beletcr
ious influence at night than by day,
tho air ought ahto - to be fresh, and
tho supply plentiful. The stomach
should not bo loaded. Tho bed
should not bo too soft, and if possi
ble tho head should lio to the
north, the feet to tho south. The
head 6h'ould never be covered by
the clothes; bat there should be
moro outer clothes at nigtht than
in the daytime; the tempera
ture of the body r.ot being so high.
It is a good thing, on taking off
ono's dab clothes, to lay aside also
all thoughts of tho past. It is only
thus that complete relaxation of the
mind, as well as of the body, is se
cured, and without this unbending
of the mental faculties perfect sleep
is impossible.
IRISH WIT.
Wmchell tells a story of a stran
ger meeting an Emcralder leaning
against a post, watching a funeral
procession coming out of a house,
when the following dialogue en
sued: "Is that a faneral?"
'Yes sir, I'm thinking it is."
"Any body of distinction?'
T reckon it is, sir"
"Who is it that dicdr .
"Oh, the gentleman in thecofEn,
to be sure," replied Pat with a
knowing look.
Only Believe.
"Only believo," and nol only will
the gates of the celestial city open
to rcceivo us, but even here we
6hall rest in the Bhadow of a great
love.
But dangers stand thuk on cverv
hand, suggests Faintheart; how
can wo help being anxious? Only
believe; the Lord is a shield to
them that put their trust in him.
Silver-tongued temptation may
assail us. Ho is able to succor
them that are tempted.
What if poverty be onr lot? The
Lord knawcth the poor.
What if riches, and we are encum
bered with many cares? Give to
the poor, and thou shalt have treas
ure in heaven.
We may be homeless. Our Lord
had not whero to lay his head.
Friendless. There is a friend
that stickcth closer than a brot
er. Afflicted. Ilo bin de th up the broken-hearted.
Unjustly accused. The Almigh
ty shall bo ihy defense.
Tho night cometh. He that
keepeth thee will not slumber.
Accidents may befall ua. The
Lord will preserve thy going out
and thy coming in.
Pain and sickness. Tho Lord
will make all thy bed in thy sick
ness. The infirmities ot age. Thoj
shall still bring forth fruit in old
age.
There are heavy burdens to be
borne, perchance insesant daily
toil. There remainelh a rest
Wearisome n'ghts may be ap
pointed to us. Hegivtth 60ng3 iu
the night.
Peath will surely come- It
knockcth alike at the lordly palace
and the lowly cottage It is well
with the righteous. Death is swal
lowed up m victory.
To the believer every providence
is but another stroke of the chis d
upon the marble rock, shaping i
for it position in the heavenly tem
ple. Ameaicnn jlfessengej.
Bad news weakens the action of
the heart, then orptetses the '.ungs;
destroy the appetite, 6iops digest
lion and partially suspends all tho
functions of the system. An omo
lion of shame flushes the face ; fear
blanches it ; and an instant thrill
electrifies a million nerves into a
gallop. Delirium infuse great en
ergy. Volition commands and hun
dreds of muscles spring to i-xeeute.
Powerfull emotion often kills the
body at a stroke. Eminent public
speakers l ave died n tho midst of
eloquence, or when the deep emotion
that produced it suddenly nubsided.
Largrave, the youutj Parisian, died
when he heard that the musical
prize for whi;h ho had computed,
was adjudged to another.
Woman's Endurance.
A Student at Ann Arbor, having
remarked that man baa more endu
ranco than woman, a lady present
answered that she would like to see
the thirteen hundred young men in
the University la-ed up in steel-
ribbed corsets, with hoops, heavy
kirts, trails, high heels, paniers.
chignons, and dozens of hair pins
sticking in their 6calps, cooped up
in tho house, year afler year, with
no exhilerating excreise, no hopes,
aims or ambition in life, and seo if
thev could stand it as well as the
girls. Nothing, said ihe, bat the
fact that women, like cats, hr.ve
nino lives, enables ihem to survive
the present regime to which custom
dooms too sex.
8- Mother," saiu a little feWow
of seven years, 'I think that God
should have the Sunday all lohim
self." "Why do you think so, my son?"
"Because Sunday is the longest
day of the whole week, and Gnl
does so much for us, 1 th:nk ho
ought to havo tho whole day to
himself," and the grateful youth
walked up to the window to look at
his sled, which had been carcinlly
placed on the porch.
It costs a white mau in Mncon,
Georgia, just $500 and six months
imprisonment to desert a wifo of
his own color and marry a ncgress.
Scves him right.
The Peabody property in Eng
land, seized by the Crown, was
part of his gift to the poor of Lon
don, and has been released to the
fund in question.
A Woman's tears ar generally
mo'e effective than her words. In
such cases, wind is a less powerful
element than water.
Teacher. "If a man givo yon a
hundred dollars to keep lor him.
and died, what would you da f
Woald yoa pray for him ?" Cand,
id pupil ".No, sir ; but I would
pray ior another like him."
"According to Milton, Eve kept
silenco in Eden to hear her hus
band talk," said a gentleman to a
lady friend; and then added in a
melancholy tone, "Alas, there have
been no Eyes 6incc." "Because,"
quickly retorted tho lady, "thorc
have been no husbands worth lis
tening to."
The man who was to poor to lako
the paper was recently swindled
out of a hundred dollars by a con
fidence man. Good for him; he
will fcnow better next lime.
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the office of publication (except incases
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drawing. The following is a list of name
and price of papers that will be furnished :
X. 1. Tribune & 1 ticket, $l,6d
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